Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] 2.3.99-pre1 is checked in to cvs

[William S. <wst...@po...>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> I fixed the swapping bug.  That turned out to be a long-standing bug and I'm 
> surprised I didn't see it before.  The problem was that the kernel vm area 
> wasn't mapped in to new processes, and if they needed to swap immediately, 
> they segfaulted when trying to read the swap map, which is vmalloced.

	Thanks!  I'll try it out this weekend.

> In other news, I tried getting a major number for the block device, which I 
> renamed vbd (== Virtual Block Device).  In the immortal words of hpa, "Both 
> these names are extremely poor choices" (he was also referring to /dev/disk/*).
> 
> Discussions are continuing...

	Did he have any suggestions about what might be more to his
liking?
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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